Preston Dale: “The View”

Goals

So, instead of making yet another post about how my goals are going. I'm just going to let it go this time. Hopefully sometime this week ill get enough spare time that i can make a separate post that i can use to just update about the goals. but for now, we will let them be.

The View

I have decided that life can be boring or exciting. It just depends on how you look at things. For example, i could go on and on about how much i hate my telemarketing job (boring) OR i could tell you about how i somehow managed to go on a solid string of about 5 or 6 people, asking for persons that had been deceased between 1 and 12 years. Yeah.. Awkward.

I could also tell you that school is really hard and i hate it (boring) or i could tell you how I managed to get stuck in the elevator with my one of my teachers and it was either the teacher or I who had really rank body odor. ( I wear deodorant… just sayin)

I could mention how my dating life is pretty much non-existent and wine about it (boring) or i could tell you how i won courtside tickets to the Utah Flash Basketball game and then called up the only girl I'm mildly interested in only to not even hear a single word back since…… wait, no, that really sucks…. (if you (the ‘girl’) are reading this, thanks…..)

What I'm getting at is that its all a matter of perception. For example: The picture to the right. How old is the lady in the picture. To some she may look 20. To others you may see the 70 year old. Keep looking until you can see both views. If that isn't clear for you check out the story from below from Steven Coveys “7 Habits of Highly Effective People:”

“Two battleships assigned to the training squadron had been at sea on maneuvers in heavy weather for several days. I was serving on the lead battleship and was on watch on the bridge as night fell.The visibility was poor with patchy fog, so the captain remained on the bridge keeping an eye on all activities. Shortly after dark, the lookout on the wing of the bridge reported, "Light, bearing on the starboard bow."

"Is it steady or moving astern?" the captain called out.
Lookout replied, "Steady, captain," which meant we were on a dangerous collision course with that ship.
The captain then called to the signal man, "Signal that ship: We are on a collision course, advise you change course 20 degrees."
Back came a signal, "Advisable for you to change course 20 degrees."
The captain said, "Send, I'm a captain, change course 20 degrees."
"I'm a seaman second class," came the reply. "You had better change course 20 degrees."
By that time, the captain was furious. He spat out, "Send, I'm a battleship. Change course 20 degrees."
Back came the flashing light, "I'm a lighthouse." We changed course.